Last week, a federal appeals court struck down the President’s controversial executive order.
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“President Obama’s announcement one-year ago today held historic significance for millions of immigrant families, including thousands of Asians and Pacific Islanders who were expected to benefit from the expansion of the already successful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the creation of a new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program”.
Obama’s program, called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), would allow such undocumented immigrants to apply for work permits if they have lived in the country for at least five years and have not committed felonies or repeated misdemeanors. “With this swift filing by the Department of Justice for Supreme Court review, the Court has plenty of time to hear the case this term and provide stability to the millions of families stuck in legal limbo”.
The executive orders Obama issued previous year have been dragged into a court dispute between 26 mainly Republican-led states. Hanen said that that the executive actions would place a heavy burden on the states’ resources.
Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton has said she would go further than Obama in shielding many types of illegal immigrants from deportation, while Donald Trump, a Republican candidate, has maintained he would deport all 11 million.
Last week, a federal appeals court chose to continue blocking implementation of two immigration programs.
“A Syrian child is not going to have an intel record, but precisely for that reason, we believe that this is not the pool of individuals who are most likely to be ISIL operatives”, Rhodes said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
A New Orleans-based federal appeals court said in a 2-1 vote that the states could challenge the plan because it would cost them millions of dollars. To determine how the DAPA program would be applied, the district court analyzed the denial rates of DACA because the program stated that it would have similar processes to DACA.
Columbus’ Latino community leaders say they’re a little less on edge than Immigration agents will arrest large numbers of people at home or work.
If the Supreme Court acts quickly on the appeal, it could hear the case by next June, just months before the 2016 presidential election. The appeal comes exactly one year after the program was announced. “I look forward to the day that we remove the shadow of deportation and finally allow them to step into the light”.
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The states are expected to file their brief with the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, and could ask for an extension of time. The Constitution only allows federal courts the authority to decide actual “cases or controversies”, and the lack of proof that a suing party had any vital interest at stake denies it the right even to file a lawsuit in those courts.
